Today, we remember the more than 500,000 Roma murdered under the Nazi regime.

Their lives were extinguished, their culture suppressed, and their stories silenced.

80 years later, we remember the past and commit to do better in the future. We honour Roma’s legacy and continue to fight for a world where diversity is celebrated and where hatred has no place.

On #RomaHolocaustDay, we reemphasise our commitment to safeguard the rights of all minority groups.

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@EUCommission Can you maybe update this tooth to include both Roma and Sinti? Or say Romani?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romani_Holocaust

Romani Holocaust - Wikipedia

@Pepijn Include maybe gypsies, yenisch, ursaris... in the same move eh? @EUCommission

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Very important to remember that the #Nazis went after pretty much everyone who was in any way vulnerable to them, from Jews to Roma to slavic people to immigrants to queer people... Even people who supported them weren't necessarily spared, if they were part of another group they had gotten around to going after.

Really, they were going after everyone, because you can find a reason to persecute anyone, and violence was what they were about.

And that's how they killed 25 to 50 million people, though we may never have the exact number.

@EUCommission don't you do a terribly racist border control program that regularly denies asylum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontex
Frontex - Wikipedia

@hipsterelectron
I'm a bit confused, but i was under the impression that asylum dissensions are done by immigration departments of individual countries.
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> and commit to do better in the future.

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Maybe we should mention the word "Porajmos" for this.

@EUCommission You aren’t doing a great job with “all minority groups” and a worse one with Romani…

My closest friend is Sinti and what she had to go through in the Netherlands (not even eastern Europe) is just comprehensively fucked!

@EUCommission remember that even today Roma face heavy prejudice in most parts of Europe. I don’t know many Roma but the ones I do know are really nice people who don’t fit into the stereotypes.
@EUCommission excellent sentiments. Can I suggest that you start to plan for #gazaholocaust day. Can I suggest October 8 to commemorate the beginning as the end is not yet in sight - there are more #palestinian children yet to be murdered.